Nikita Khrushchev
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5 days ago · Het politieke klimaat ten tijde van Josef Stalin (1987-1953) wordt in The Death of Stalin (2017) geanalyseerd vanuit een droogkomisch perspectief. En dat pakt goed uit. Het hoofd van de communistische partij in de Sovjet-Unie wordt vermoord en een machtsstrijd tussen ministers is het gevolg.
4 days ago · Stalin died a slow, angry, and painful death on March 5, 1953. He had suffered a stroke after retiring on the night of March 1–2, but this was not perceived until the morning because of his concern for personal security.
11 hours ago · With Order No. 270, Stalin commanded soldiers risking capture to fight to the death describing the captured as traitors; among those taken as a prisoner of war by the Germans was Stalin's son Yakov, who died in their custody.
5 days ago · Instead, Stalin used the Soviet state-subsidy apparatus to foil Eisenstein’s projects and attack his principles at every turn, a situation that resulted in the director’s failure to complete another film until Alexander Nevsky was commissioned in 1938.
2 days ago · The validity of these confessions is debated by historians, but there is consensus that Kirov's death was the flashpoint at which Stalin decided to take action and begin the purges. [34] [35] Some later historians came to believe that Stalin arranged the murder, or at least that there was sufficient evidence to reach such a conclusion. [36]
2 days ago · His policies thereafter brought widespread starvation to that republic, especially in 1932–33, when possibly millions may have died. Nevertheless, many party officials from Ukraine came to Moscow to make their careers, among them Nikita S. Khrushchev, who would succeed Stalin. The armed forces were dominated by Russians and Ukrainians, but ...
11 hours ago · Stalin ordered one of his best NKVD agents, General Nikolai Skoblin, to pass Heydrich false information suggesting that Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky and other Soviet generals were plotting against Stalin.
